GANESH BAGLER, Ph.D.
OWL Lappe, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestraße, 63-73, D-14195, Berlin, Germany.
Mobile No.: +49—176 8319 8416
~Computational Biologist
E Mail: [email protected]
~Computational Researcher in Life Sciences
~Complex Systems Modeler
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
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A competent professional with 2 years of post-PhD experience in Computational Biological research
encompassing Protein Structures, Computational Modeling, Bioinformatics and Complex Networks.
Well-versed with interdisciplinary skills with background in Physics, Biology, Computational Techniques
and Mathematics.
Experience in independent handling of research projects from scratch, proven by publication profile.
Exceptional communication, presentation and leadership skills.
Designed, executed and coded for graph-theoretical modeling of protein structures;
Discovered an unique and generic property of protein structures, namely, assortativity.
Conducted projects in the areas of Biology, Computer Science, Physics and Theoretical Astrophysics.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Protein Structure Modeling, Systems Biology, Computational
Biology, Complex Systems, Complex Networks, Computational Neuroscience.
EXPERIENCE
Research Fellow (Post Doc)
Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.
Oct 2008 — Till Date
Visiting Fellow (Post Doc)
July 2007 — Sept 2008
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Computational Biology (December 2006)
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India.
Affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Thesis: “Modelling Protein Contact Networks”— involving interesting computational protein science
and complex network results; under the supervision of Dr Somdatta Sinha.
M.Tech., Computational Techniques (January 2002)
School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
M.Sc., Physics (May 1999)
Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune, India.
B.Sc., Physics (April 1997)
Sangameshwar College, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India.
OTHER ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
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Consistently topped in School and College; TOEFL Score: 637 / 677 (2000).
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, 2000. (72.84 percentile; All India Rank: 340).
Diploma in Information and Software Management from Aptech Computer Education (1998).
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RESEARCH UNDERTAKEN
Network Analysis of Protein Structures
Building Statistical Multi-body Potentials
Network Analysis of Airport Network of India
Computational Modeling of Brain Networks
Study of Synchronization of Pancreatic Cells
Mathematical Analysis of Ecological Systems
FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
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Eklavya Scholarship by Directorate of Education, Maharashtra Government, India, 1997—1999.
Junior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, Jan 2001.
Senior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, Jan 2003.
HONORS AND AWARDS
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Selected as a Speaker for “Theoretical Physics Seminar Circuit” (TPSC), Nov 2006.
Visited the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), USA after selection as an International Fellow, March 2007.
Selected for participation in the prestigious Complex Systems Summer School (Beijing, China, 2005) of
Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA.
Best Graduate-Student Seminar Award, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, 2003.
Aptech Leadership Award, Aptech Computer Education, 1998.
Rajya Puraskar Award, A State-level Award by Bharat Scouts and Guides, India, 1992.
PEER REVIEWER
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Refereed for Bioinformatics, Europhysics Letters, and Physica A.
PUBLICATIONS
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M Lappe, Ganesh Bagler, I Fillipis, H Stehr, JM Duarte, and S Rajagopal “Designing evolvable libraries
using multi-body potentials”, Current Opinion in Biotechnology (Submitted).
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Ganesh Bagler and Somdatta Sinha, “Assortative mixing in Protein Contact Networks and protein folding
kinetics”, Bioinformatics, vol. 23, no. 14, 1760—1767 (2007).
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Ganesh Bagler and Somdatta Sinha, “Network Properties of Protein Structures”,
Physica A, 346, pp. 27—33, (2005); arXiv:q-bio.MN/0408009.
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Ganesh Bagler, “Analysis of Airport Network of India as a complex weighted network”,
Physica A, Vol. 387, Issue 12, pp. 2972—2980 (2008); arXiv:cond-mat/0409773 (2004).
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Ganesh Bagler, “Complex network view of performance and risks on airport networks”,
Nova Science Publishers, USA, ISBN: 978-1-60692-393-1 (2009).
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Ganesh Bagler and Somdatta Sinha, “The Role of Host Migration on Host-Parasite Population Dynamics”,
in Proceedings of the Second Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, pp. 37—40, (2005).
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Hemant Dixit, Ganesh Bagler, Somdatta Sinha, “Modelling the host-parasite interaction”, in Proceedings
of the First Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, pp. 321—324, (2003).
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Ganesh Bagler, Wei-chao Chen, Jia-xin Cui, Sutirth Dey, W. Tyler Gibson, Vuk Milošević, Daniel
Rosenbloom, and Jiang Zhang (in alphabetical order), “Non-verbal human communication under varying
levels of restrictions: An empirical and computational investigation of Password and Gasekitomu games,”
SFI CSSS Student Papers, Beijing (2005).
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Samraat Pawar, Oskar Burger, Brian Hallmark, Ganesh Bagler, Frank Wang, and Xue Fu, “Evolution of
Food-web Networks in Fluctuating Environments,” SFI CSSS Student Papers, Beijing (2005).
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INVITED TALKS AND VISITS
“Protein Contact Networks” Seminar as SFI International Fellow at Santa Fe Institute, USA. March 2007.
“Relation of topological parameters with the rate of protein folding of single-domain two state proteins” A
Condensed Matter Special Seminar at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bombay, INDIA.
October 16, 2005.
“Complex Networks— A Model for systems-level study”, at International Institute of Information
Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, INDIA. October 29, 2005.
An invited talk under Theoretical Physics Seminar Circuit (TPSC) at Physical Research Laboratory (PRL),
Ahmedabad. Jan 2007.
“On Chimp and Human brains” at “A daylong meeting on Comparative Genomics of Chimps and Humans”
at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, INDIA. October 4, 2005.
Graduate Visitor at Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, INDIA.
September 12—30, 2005.
COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS
Operating Systems:
Languages:
Scientific Packages:
Applications:
GNU/Linux, Unix, Windows, DOS.
Fortran 99/77, Java, MatLab, C.
MatLab, PyMol, Origin, Neuron, Octave etc.
LATEX, MySQL, BibTeX, Gnuplot, HTML etc.
PROJECTS
Complex Systems Summer School (Beijing, China), Group Project-I
July 9—August 5, 2005
“Non-verbal human communication under varying levels of restrictions: An empirical and computational
investigation of Password and Gasekitomu games.”
Complex Systems Summer School (Beijing, China), Group Project-II
July 9—August 5, 2005
“Evolution of Food-web Networks in Fluctuating Environments.” We used weighted, directed network model,
to address questions about evolution of food-web characteristics under fluctuating environments.
MTech (Computational Techniques)
August 2001—January 2002
“Detection of erasures in Questioned Documents using Image Processing Techniques” at Department of
Computer Science, University of Hyderabad, India; Guide: Dr. Chakravarthy Bhagvati. Developed Image
Processing Algorithms for semi-automation of Questioned Document Examination process. Project developed
for: Bureau of Police (Research and Development), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
MSc (Physics)
January—April 1999
“Estimation of the baryonic content of the universe from QSO absorption lines” at Inter-University Centre for
Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India; Guide: Dr. Srianand.
MSc (Physics)—Mini Project
November 1998
“Simulation of a 13-atom Argon stable crystal structure using method of annealing”. Project carried out for a
course on Methods in Computational Physics. The simulation was coded in FORTRAN.
Summer-School Project
June 1998
“Hologram Simulation.” While attending the Golden Jubilee Summer School at Raman Research Institute
(RRI), Bangalore, India; Guide: Dr. Hema Ramchandran. Studied basics of hologram and did a computer
simulation of a simple geometric shape using MatLab.
Software Project at Aptech Computer Education
November 1997—January 1998
“Bajaj Sales & Stock Management.” Methodologies Used: System Analysis and Design, Programming
Methodologies. Coding was done in FOXPRO using the front-end tool.
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CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
VIII European Symposium of The Protein Society, Zurich, Switzerland. June 14—18, 2009.
3rd International Biocuration Conference, at Berlin, Germany. April 16—19, 2009.
International Meeting on “Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society”, at NCBS, India.
January 21—22, 2008.
“CCMB-DAAD Workshop on Behavioral Neuroscience”, at CCMB, India. Sept—Oct 2006.
Santa Fe Institute’s “Complex Systems Summer School”, held at Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CHINA. July 9—August 5, 2005.
“Short course on Computational Neuroscience” at University of Hyderabad, INDIA, (11—21 October,
2004), and at IIT Bombay, INDIA, (8—16 Oct 2005).
“Workshop on Economy as a Complex System” at Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, INDIA.
December 6—7, 2004.
International Conference on Statistical Physics, STATPHYS-KOLKATA V, “Complex Networks:
Structure, Function and Processes” at Bose Centre, Kolkata, INDIA. June 27—30, 2004.
“National Conference in Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics” at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Kharagpur, INDIA. December 28—30, 2003.
“Meeting on Robustness, Emergence and Pattern Formation in Biological Systems” at Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, INDIA. December 1—3, 2002.
“Symposium on The Current Excitement in Biology” at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology,
Hyderabad, INDIA. November 24—29, 2002.
“School and Workshop on Distributed Parallel Computing for Physicists” at Harish-Chandra Research
Institute (HRI), Allahabad, INDIA. April 11—19, 2002.
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
“Table-Tennis Champion” at CCMB’s Annual Games, 2004.
— Represented CCMB at CSIR’s zonal tournaments.
Berlin Half Marathon (April 2009); Hyderabad 10 K Run (2005).
Coordinator of “PhD Students' Saturday Seminar” at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.
“Students’ Placement Coordinator” for M.Tech. 2000 batch, University of Hyderabad.
Extensive participation in “Scout Movement”. Representation at National Level as a Patrol Leader.
First award in the Scientific Project Competition organized by SEARCH. Project : Milk Miracle.
Hobbies: Reading, Sketching, Writing, Sky-gazing.
PERSONAL DOSSIER
Language Proficiency : English, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada; (Capable of reading) Telugu, Bangla.
Permanent Address : 1/7, Shivaji Nagar, Modi, Solapur, 413001 Maharashtra, India.
URL
: http://www.geocities.com/ganesh54
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